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Friday, November 21, 2014

BOTB Results: Watertown

I'll be keeping today's post brief as I am still dealing with my mother's illness. As indicated on my previous post, I'll be blogging sporadically until further notice.

Battle of the Bands results:

In my latest round of Battle of the Bands I offered Frank Sinatra's version of "What's Now Is Now" against the version of the same song as done by the group Cake. The song comes from Sinatra's little known album Watertown.

As I had indicated in my posts in regard to the BOTB, I have a longstanding appreciation of Sinatra as an artist and Watertown is among my all time favorite albums. I think Sinatra does a tremendous job with my song choice. For these reasons you might expect my preferred version to be the one by Sinatra. However upon hearing Cake's version I was impacted by how much they demonstrated the rock nature of this song. They pull it off with a convincing sincerity. I especially like the guitar work in their presentation. Simple, steady, and altogether pleasing to my ears.

I was surprised to find that I was not alone in my preference for the Cake version. Sinatra still squeaked by with a win.,

Final tally:

Cake 14Sinatra 15

Thanks to all for your votes. Next Battle of the Bands post will appear December 1st.

I enjoyed cake too(more ways than one). This is never an easy time and my heart goes out to you and your family. If you can find moments, here and there, to charge your batteries, I hope you do. Thinking of you

Go ahead and say something. Don't be afraid to speak your mind.I normally try to respond to all comments in the comment section so please remember to check the "Email follow-up comments" box if you want to participate in the comment conversation.

For Battle of the Bands voting the "Anonymous" commenting option has been made available though this version is the least preferred. If voting using "anonymous" please include in your comment your name (first only is okay) and city you are voting from and the reason you chose the artist you did.

If you know me and want to comment but don't want to do it here, then you can send me an email @ jacksonlee51 at aol dot com.

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